Raising a Business

Starting your own small business, and working from home are becoming more popular than ever with Women in particular these days.

Raising a Business, a woman’s no-nonsense guide to successfully growing a small business, is the much anticipated follow up book from Melbourne mum and author Sonia Williams. Her first book, Show Mummy the Money was a guide for people, not just Mums, on how to start their own small business and was a huge success.

Raising a Business follows on from that idea. The book is aimed at Women who are planning on starting, or those who have recently started their own small business. It is designed to teach Women how to successfully prepare their small business for growth and sustainability.

Sonia interviewed 20 successful business Women for the book. I really enjoyed the inspirational advice from great Australia business women through out the book such as Larissa Bright of Diva Cosmetics, Naomi Simons of RedBallon Days, Sue Whyte of Intimo and many more. The book is packed with their experienced advice and tips on starting and growing your own business.

Along with the wonderful advice in the book, when you purchase the book you can also gain access to private exercises and resources on Sonia’s website Show Mummy the Money.

Raising a Business is available now, RRP$29.95

Work from home in your underwear

This is a question that is asked quite a lot in the forums. Women looking for ideas on things they can do to work from home. Doing a search, you will come up with tons of information on working from home in the search engines, but a lot of it is nothing more than a scam and a waste of time and money.

The wonderful Wendy Piersall from eMoms at home has put together a great list of Top 10 Internet Home Businesses Ideas You Can Start and Run in Your Underwear, legitimate ideas that you can use to start a home based business.

A lot of people fall into the trap of thinking working from home and making money online is so easy. The saying “If it sounds too good to be true.. it probably is!” certainly applies here. Working from home can be a lot of hard work, but it can also be very rewarding.

Wendy offers some great resources to back up her suggestions. A must read for anyone contimplating working from home/online.

Top 10 Internet Home Businesses Ideas You Can Start and Run in Your Underwear

H.O.W. feature - All For Women

Recently, Doris from Home Office Women invited me to do a feature on her site. Along side some great WAH Women that I look up to like Ponn Sabra,Wendy Piersall and many other inspirational women.
So go on over and check out the H.O.W. feature - All For Women
(Gina, there is another picture in there too LOL)

94 Ways to Keep Kids Busy

Wendy over at eMoms at home has put together an amazing guide on 94 ways to keep kids busy for the work at home parent.

Some fantastic ideas and resources to help keep your kids happy when you need get things done. A must read for all busy parents, not just those working from home.
What are your favorite ways for keeping your young kids busy at home?

Aussie Bloggers, come join the fun!

Meg is at it again, wrangling all the Aussie bloggers together.

Meg has set up an Australian Blogs Community at Bumpzee.

So if your an Aussie with a blog, come join the fun! Check out Meg’s post if you need some more details.

The Ultimate Guide to Productivity

I have been tagged by Ponn for the ultimate guide to productivity meme. She actually tagged me 2 days ago a week ago, so that in itself is a very good indication of my wonderful productivity skills (or lack there of) and my world class procrastination.

I see Meg was also tagged, and her post rings very true for me and I identify with most of what she said. I am the queen of procrastination, so easily distracted, disorganised is an understatement, always putting things off and I also have the memory of a rock.. the list of my excuses could go on. All these things are something I would really like to work on and change in my on line and off line life. I really think they are holding me back.

I have none of my own tips to offer, nor would you want them. Instead I have many wonderful ideas I have come across this week from reading others.

• Getting up earlier. I know this works for me, getting up at 5:30. What I get done in that 1 1/2hr before the kids wake up is probably more than I would in the rest of the day.
• I came across this idea this morning, and I think it is fantastic, well part of it. I, and I bet many others have soo many feeds in your reader. Steve Pavlina says “Split your RSS feeds into two lists: those that help boost your productivity vs. those that taketh it away. Force yourself to unsubscribe from all the feeds in the second list. You won’t miss them” Like me, that may have made you gasp “Noooo I can’t delete them, that’s a bit harsh, I will miss them!” I think the splitting in 2 is a great idea, but instead of deleting the others, save them for later when you don’t need to be doing any work.
• Read the rest of Steve’s 3 part series 33 rules to boost your productivity so many great tips and ideas there!
• The Positivity Blog and their One simple way to reduce procrastination is also a great read.

Everyone has been tagged in the week it took me to reply, so anyone left who hasn’t been tagged…you are now.

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Special Offer-The Secret to Self-Empowerment for Women

Did you see Top Sante’s survey published in the major daily newspapers recently? Of the 2,000 women surveyed less than 25% feel they are living the life they thought they would when they were younger. Sound familiar?

What’s worse is the staggering 84% that say they are not fulfilling their potential. Further, the overwhelming majority of them feel underpaid, overworked, sexually frustrated and disillusioned!

“I was consumed with self doubt in many areas of my life. This also affected relationships with family, friends and slowed down my progress professionally.” Danni, Director of Lumiere Make-Up Melbourne, Australia

The chairwoman of Saatchi & Saatchi, Sandra Yates, said: “If there’s one thing this report finally does, it puts the nail in that old myth that time will fix the problem. If we ever bought that old pup, we should abandon it as it is clearly not true.”

If you are a ……

• small business owner
• young (or young at heart) professional or executive
• therapist/nurse or carer
• stay at home mum
• teacher/educator
• trainer
• student

You have probably at sometime in your life been held back by baggage from the past and/or limiting beliefs you have made about yourself.

How many times have you heard yourself saying any of the following?

“I can’t do that”
“I’m not worthy”
“I’m not good enough”
“I’m no good at Sales”
“I don’t deserve what I really want”
“Money doesn’t come easily”
“I’m not a good mum”
“I’m not a good wife”
“I’m not attractive enough”
“I’m not slim enough”

Probably more than you care to remember!

We’ve been fortunate enough to develop a relationship with Anna & Sean Steele from NLP Coaching School who are about to deliver a series of seminars called Purpose, Passion and Power Weekend: The Secret to Self-Empowerment for Women.

The seminars will be delivered in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane shortly and you will be surrounded by other women who are trying to get the most out of life and are ready to leave all that stuff behind.

In the two-day event you learn how to:

• Take charge of your life
• Create the relationships you desire
• Hear the hidden messages in your emotions
• Drastically improve your financial results
• Overcome emotional baggage and be free of the past once and for all
• Be free from all your baggage from the past

AND!

• Smash through personal roadblocks
• Eliminate negative beliefs and decisions that are holding you back
• Formulate win-win relationships in all areas of your life
• Connect with your purpose and passion in life
• Consciously design and navigate your future and take charge of your destiny
• Set compelling goals with the tools to see you succeed at them

NLP School promise that if you don’t like the seminar not only will they give you a complete refund, they’ll give you $50 for wasting your time. You can’t get fairer than that can you?

“The content of the course was absolutely mind-blowing! I recommend everyone to attend. Both Sean & Anna were extraordinary people and presenters and it exceeded all of my expectations”
Mary-Jane Slade, Human Resources Consultant, Newcastle Australia

To get the full details on how to eliminate baggage from the past, take charge of your destiny and the NLP Coaching School “Satisfaction Guarantee”, visit the Purpose, Passion & Power Weekend: The Secret to Self-Empowerment for Women website.

Dates:

Sydney - 12th-13th May

Melbourne - 19th -20th May

Brisbane - 4th - 5th August

Guarantee: Sean & Anna are so confident that you’ll love the training that if you are not 100% satisfied by lunchtime on the last day of training you can hand in your materials and get a full refund.

Plus, they’ll write you a $50 cheque for wasting your time. You can’t get any fairer than that! You’ve got nothing to lose….

*FREE DOUBLE PASSES!*

We’ve organised for NLP Coaching School to provide us with 10 FREE double passes to each event (worth $794 a per double pass). Visit www.nlpschool.com.au/pppweekend.htm to find out what you will learn and also the course cost, then go to http://www.nlpschool.com.au/pppdblpass.html to enter your details and the cost of the course for your chance to win a FREE double pass.

 

Get started, get active, get started fulfilling your potential, isn’t it about time you gave yourself the gift of clarity, passion and power?

 

 

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